by Sasha T. Brelinsky Why? It’s the question bouncing around my mind. Why? Just as my pain becomes bearable, just as I feel like maybe I can start to go […]
Category: grieving
My children and I had traded our usual lazy Saturday morning routine on this wintery morning to pay our respects to the family of a young man who had died just the weekend before.
Gabriel Max (Artist) Her name was Misty. It was printed in chalk on the nurses’ station board along with a list of other first names. We would never actually meet, […]
Shower taken, clothes on, hair coiffed, make-up applied and breakfast gobbled, I was sounding the five minute alarm in an attempt to move my crew toward the waiting van when […]
Having just spent some part of the night curled up on the hard waiting room floor, I awoke and made my way down the long corridor of our temporary lodging, […]
My husband can attest to the fact that I haven’t a single green appendage (aka green thumb); however, I’ve planted rose bushes at every house we’ve shared. Planting them was […]
We were thrilled when my fertility charts unveiled the blessing of a new baby. One of the joys of charting is that we are in tune with our mutual fertility. […]